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OCTOBER 1973 1. bP~TITE. Tregarden Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. Specimen a- Small, bright sharp greenish blue modified hexagonal crystals richly encrusting Orthoclase, Quartz, Tourmaline, Gilbertite and Fluorite pegmatite. lxl". £2; Specimen B- Odd scattered small "Iell formed crystals on crystalised Orthoclase with Quartz and some highly modified deep purple Fluorite crystals. 2xlt". £1. 50; Specimen C- Small sharp sea-green crystals scattered over Gilbertite on Orthoclase crystals. ~ specimens are offered of similar quality and size .. xt" each. £1 per specimen; Specimen D- Similar to specimen C with slightly less coverage of apatite. 5 pieces on offer at 50p. each. 2. ",P.c.TITE. Pana squeira, Beira-Biaxa, Portugal. Large, sharp semi-transparent sea-green hexagonal crystals to til in size intergro"m and encrusting a matrix of Muscovite Mica with minor Quartz and JirSenopyrite. Large b.patite crystals such as these are very rare, and although there is slight damage to some of the crystals it is an extremely handsome piece. 3tx3t". £30. 3. ~URIca~LCITE. Golconda Mine, Brassington, Derbyshire. Light green radiated crystal tufts and masses in numerous cavities in cellular Ba~ytes matrix with small sparkling Hemimorphite crystals in association. 3tx3x2t" • £It. 4. AUTUNITE. Bessines, Haute-Vienne, France. Bright, blocky yellowish-green crystals thickly intergro\vu and encrusting reddish Granite matrix. a very fine and well crystalised specimen of this mineral. ltxlt". £10. 5. aZURITE. Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, tlustralia. Bright blue sharp well formed crystals forming an attractive intergro"m cellu13r mass with minor Malachite in association. 2tx2t". £10. 6. bZURITE. Tsumeb, Otavi, South West l~rica. Superb, single deep blue sharp crystals showing perfect terminations. Mostly around l"xt" in size - £3 each. 7. BbRYTES. Hilton Mine, Scordale, Westmoreland. 1. large well- formed group of three crystals in parallel growth the largest being 2t"x3t" in size, and the three crystals being mainly transparent. £3.50. -""""'=------2- BnRYTOChLCITE. Nentsberry Hoggs Mine, ~dmiralty Flats, hlston, Cumberland. Well formed white intergrown crystals to ~" in size thickly encrusting Limestone matrix. 41x2~". £4-. 9· B~YLDONITE. Tsumeb, Otavi, S.W. africa. Extremely rich thick apple green coatings on and replacing an inter­ grmm mass of large skeletal Mimetite crystals. 2~x2". £5. 10. BhYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Specimen ~ - Rich crusts thickly coating Quartz gossan matrix. 2x2", £1. 50; Specimen B- Thick green crusts infilling joints and coating gossan matrix with minor Mimetite in association. l~xl!". £1.25. 11. N"TIVE BISMUTH. Botallack Mine, St. Just, CormTal1. Rich, bright metallic cleavages disseminated through brmmish Jasper. 3x2". £1.75; 2~x2". £1.50.

12. BLOMSTRl DINE. ~endal, Southern Norway. A pure deep lustrou5 brownish mass showing concoidal fracture and a rough crystal outline. 2xl". £1. BORNITE. Trenwith Mine, st. Ives, Cornwall. An interesting intergrowth of Bornite forming a meshwork in golden Chalcopyrite with minor Pyrite and Chlorite. an old label is attached to the specimen. 3xl~". £1.25. 14. BORNITE. Tincroft Mine, Illogan, Corn"Tall. Slightly irridescent mass intergrown with greyish massive Chalcocite. hn old label accompanies this specimen. 2xltxlt" • £1. 15. BORNITE. Wheal Pe~~ance, , Cornwall. Small cubic crystals encrusting cellular Quartz rna trix. Itxl". £1. 16. BR~ZIL~NITE. Mantena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Lime green translucent well formed and terminated single crystal 1" in size. £2. 17. BROOKITE. Magnet Cove, Garland Co., arkansas, U.S.A. Large, black, \o/el1 formed crystals to ~" in size richly scattered over a Quartzose matrix. 3~x3". £7. 18. ~~LCITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An unusual group of pinkish platy crystals intergrown in such a fashion as to resemble a rose. 2xlt". £3. 19. CaLCITE. Stank Mine, Ulverstone, North Lanes. Highly modified transparent sharp crystals encrusting a large bro"mish partially etched 'dog-tooth' habit Calcite crystal, the overlying crystals being stacked tovmrds the temination of the underlying crystal in parallel growth. 3x3~". £6. 20. CALCITE. Beckermet Mine, Millom, West Cumberland. Large semi-transparent hexagonal well termli,ated crystals in parallel growth, the largest crystals being 3" in length, with inclusions of light reddish Hematite giving the specimen a very attractive colouration. 3x3". £4.50. 21. ChSSITERITE. Ding Dong Mine, Madron, Cornwall. ~ cellular wass of Tourmalinised Granite .,ith all the cavities lined with small black sparkling Cassiterite crystals. 3x2". £4-. -3-

CaSSITERITE. SJvath, Luxulyan, Corm181l. li. mass of coarse brown Cassiterite with numerous cavities lined with eharp black crystols and associated with minor Tourmaline and Muscovite. 3tx3x2". £7.

23. CaSSITERITE. st. dgnes, Cornwall. h crust of bright bla~ well-formed crystals richly encrusting altered Slate matrix. An old label is attached to this specimen. 4-x2". £7. 24-. CaSSITERITE. Great Beam Mine, Nr. Roche, Cormvall. an interesting vein section consisting of coarse brown crystaline Cassiterite with minor Quartz, Topaz and a central infillLDg of Tourmaline between v1811s of altered Granite. 3x2x2". £3. 25. C"SSITERITE. Reclmoor Mine, , Corm/all. Light bro.m elongated 'sparable' type crystals intergrown and lining cavities in drusy QU<:lrtz. 2xltxlt". £4-.50.

26. Cli.SS IT ER IT E. Galicia, Spain. Dark black lustrous intergrmvn crystals to t" in size associated with minor brownish matrix. Crystals of this size are very rare. 2xltxli". £7. 27. C~SSITERITE.varietyWood Tin. Tasna, Oruro, Bolivia. n. superb botryoidal mass with a crystaline surface, the sides showing excellent banding. An old label is attached to the specimen. 3x2". £8. 28. CnSSITERITE, pseudomorphous after Orthoclase Feldspar. Specimen ~ - intergrown twinned crystals with minor Quartz forming a 1" group, £2; Specimen B-1" terminated single crystal, £1.50. Location:- Wheal Coates, st. "gnes, Cormvall. 29. CELESTITE. Madagascar. nn excellent large portion of a geode completely lined with large clear light blue sharply terminated crystals. This is an extremely fine specimen suitable for cabinet or ~ecorative display. 6x5tx2t" - the largest Celestite crystals being 1" in size and mostly over t". £35. 30. CHhLcOCITE. Cooks Kitchen Mine, , Cornwall. Irridescently tarnished intGrgrovm plJty hexagonal cryst<:lls thickly encrusting Chlorite/Sulphide matrix. lttx3x2". £10. 31. '::L-..RKE ITE. Spruce Pine, Mitchell Co., North Carolina, U. S.1>.. Dark brovm resinous mass .lith minor Uraninite and yello1/1ish Gummite. 2x2". £2.50. 32. CLINOCL-.SE. Wheal Gorland, St. Day, Cornwall. Deep blue radiated crystal aggregates richly intergrovm with light blue massive Liroconite and gossan. ltxlt". £4-. 33. CLINOCL"SE. Cap Garonne, Var, France. Rich crusts of small deep blue drusy crystals on matrix with minor ?reenish Cormvallite in association. Specimen 1>. - ltxl"2'" £1. 50; Specimen B- lxl". £1. 34-. COLUMBITE. hnnerod, Olstfold, Norway. Pure, lustrous blackish bro.m mass vlith inor pink Feldspar. 2xl"2'"l £1..50. 35. CONNELLITE variety 'T':"LLINGITE'. Cliff Lode, Wheal Edward, St. Just, Cornwall. Light sky-blue crystaline crusts on Quartz. lxl". 50p. -4- Nb.TIVE COPPER. Relestian Mine, GWinear, Cornwall. 1l.n intergrown mass of slightly tarnished bronzy spiky crystals. 2xl". £2. 37. N,SIVE COPPER. Broken Hill, N.S.Wales, Australia. b.. wiry crystalised mass associated with glassy white reticulated Cerussite crystals. 2txl". £1.75. 38. NATIVE COPPER. Boston Mine, Keweenaw Peninsular, Michigan, U.S."'-. a hackly convoluted mass of interesting form with Quartz and minor greenish Epidote. 2txl~". £3. 39. COVELLITE. Stewart Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, U.S.~. h pure deep bluish irridescently tarnished platy mass with minor Pyrite in association. 3tx2t". £5. 4o. CUPRITE. Tolcarne Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. Deep maroon coloured veinlets and drusy cr~»taline masses with minor Native Copper and Quartz. 3x2"2'" £~. 41. CUPRITE. Wheal Damsel, St. Day, Cornwall. Rich deep red octahedral crystals thickly intergrown with crystaline Native Copper nnd minor uartz. 2txli". £5. 4-2. DELaFOSSITE. Bisbee, arizona, U.S.ft. Blackish grey drusy crystals lining cavities in a Hematitic matrix with ll minor Cuprite in association. 2tx2 • £2.

ELL~[ORTHITE. McDonald Mine, Hybla, Ontario, Canada. Blackish resinous masses richly ag6regated in Calcite. 2x2". £1.50. ltlt. EOsPHORITE. Piemental Mendez, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Specimen 1J.. - Itxlt" matrix of crystalised Rose Quartz with li6ht brovm well formed and terminated sprays of Eosphorite implanted on it. £12; Specimen B- Lustrcu s light brown transparent elongated terminated crystals richly encrusting Quartz matrix. 2xlt". £10. These are very fine specimens of this rare analogue of Childreniteo lt5. ERYTHRITE. Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Rich, radiated flattened crystals coating a Quartzose matrix. 2tx2t". £It. lt6. FLUORITE. Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. Highly unusual semi­ transparent light green stepped octahedral crystals implanted on a matrix of crystalised Pyrite. 2txlt". £It. GOETHITE. Parknoweth Mine, st. Just, Cornwall. Fine blackish botryoidal mass with a fibrous structure,on Quartz. 2x2" • £2.50. ltS. GOLD. Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota, U.S.d. Small bright wiry flakes scattered through greyish Quartz. 11 2tx2 • £2.50.

GRaPHITE. Island of Ceylon. All interestrng flexible plaw crystaline mass I'lith Quartz. 2txlt". 50p. 50. HELVINE. Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany. Small sharp waxy yellow tetrahedral crystals richly encrusting and intergrovm on Gneiss. Itxlt". £4-. JUl old label accompanies this specimen. 51. HEMIMORPHITE. Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Superb large semi-transparent zoned crystals to t" in length and up to t" in thickness forming an intergrOloffi group. 2xltxl". £4. -5- HEMIMORPHITE. Golconda Mine, Brassington, Derbyshire. ~ drusy crust of sparkling crystals covering a white Barytes matrix. 5x4-". £5. 53· Ka}lliERERITE. GUDushane, Kopdaji Yildiz, Turkey. Pale lavender coloured crystals encrusting massive Chromite. Itxl". 75p. 54-. LaZURITE. &lr-i-sang Nine, Near the Koktcha River, Badakshan, N.E. hfghanistan. Bright blue crystaline aggregates scattered through whitish C~lcite with minor Pyrite in association. 2~xli". £1.50. 55. LIBErHENITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Corm-mIl. Small sharp deep green crystals lining numerous cavities in cellular Quartz. lixl~ll. £1. 56. LIBErHENITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Sm,ll sharp sparkling crystals richly encrusting and scatt~ ed over a uartz matrix. 3x2". £4-. 57. MhGNErITE. Haytor Iron Mine, Hay tor Vale, Devon. Sharp, black, octahedral crystals encrusting massive Magnetite ",ith minor .b.ctinolite. 3xl~". £1. 58. ~.LnCHITE. Roughtenghyll, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. Radiated green fibrous m8sses to i" in length inter­ gro"m and protruding from a Quartzose matrix. 2~xl~ll. £3. 59. ~.L~CHITE. Kambove, K(Jtanga, Congo. Superb plate of banded M::!l:lchite with a smooth ",ell shaped botryoidal surfaCE. i' very decorative and colourful specimen. 6x6". £10. 60. MIMErITE. Driggeth Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. Light pea-green coloured rounded barrel sh8ped crystals completely encrusting a cellular Quartz matrix. 3xli". £4-. 61. MIMErITE. Dryghyll, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. Bright orange small hexagonal crystals thickly encrusting Quartz m:ltrix. 2~xl~". £2. 62. MIMErITE variety ChMPYLITE. Dryghyll, Calcbeck Fells, Cumberland. Specimen h - Fine brownish orange rounded barrel shaped crystals richly intergro"m on cellular Quartz matrix with minor black Psilomelane. 3xli". £4-; Specimen B- Thickly intergrown mass of bright orangey brown crystals with very minor Quartz. l~xl". £3. 63. OLIVENITE. M:ljuba Hill, Pershing ~o., Nevada, U.S.d. Bright olive green divergent needly crystals to 5 mm in len@h encrusting porphcry matrix. 2x2". £4-.50. 64-. OLIVENITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Dark green well formed crystals lining cavities in a pinkish Feldspathic rock. Itxlt". £1. 50. 65. OLIVENITE variety 'WOOD COPPER'. Wheal Unity, st. Day, Cornwall. Liver bro"m radiated veins with greenish crystaline Olivenite richly and attractively arranged in rna trix. 2xl~" • £4-. 66. PHOSPHUR"NYLITE. Margnac, La Crouzille, Haute-Vienne, Fnnce. Rich, canary yellow, cr~staline crust on altered Quartz overlain with inter rown crystals of light green hutunite. 3xl-}". £4-. -6-

PROUSTITE. Joachimstal, C.S.S.h. h mass of solid grey ~. tvlO Nb.TIVE aI\SENIC with joints ilnd surfa ces encrusted with smallwell formed transparent red Proustite crystals. 2txHxlt". £6. 68. PYROMORPHITE. Roughtenghyll, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. Lustrous, green, elongated hexagonal crystals thickly intergrovm and covering a cellular Quartz matrix. 2tx2t". £4. PYROMORPHITE. Wheal hlfred, Phillack, Cornwall. Large well­ formed pale yellowish green hexagonal crystals to 5 mm. in size, richly intergrO\ffi on cellular Quartz. 2xl+". £4. 70. PYhRHOTITE. Morro Velho Gold Mine, Ouro Preto, Br~zil. Sharp bronze coloured hexagonal crystals to 1 em. in size scattered over a plate of well crystalised creamy Calcite crystals. 3tx2t". £8. 71. PYRRHOTITE. Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Very large sharp. bronzey coloured crystal 1 em. in diameter sitting on a matrix of small Calcite crystals with minor Sphalerite. lixl7}·". £5. 72. QU,.RTZ. Fort Dauphin, Mad3gascar. 1. pair of single crystals transparent and vlell formed, both 3t" in length and showing dauphine habit terminations, one crystal having a left h~nd index face the other having a right hand index face. ~part from a small chip on the termination of one of the crystals they are free of damage with the exception of some minor parallel growth around their basis. Being sold as a pair. £9. 73. REhLG,ill. Getchell Mine, Humboldt Co., Ne~da, U.S.b.. b. crust of bright red sparkling crystals covering matrix which is also impregnated with small cavities lined with small Realgar crystals. h very rich and colourful specimen. 4x2t". 0=;6. 74. &0L;RSKITE. bnnerod, Nr. Moss, Otstfold, Norway. Pure solid lustrous black m3.SS with minor pinkish Feldspar. 3xlt" • £2.50. 75. SEK,..NINldTE. Dolni Ilory, Czechoslovakia. Massive cleaved light greyish purple mass with minor Chlorite. 3x2t". £2. N"TIVE SELENIUM. limbrosia Lakes District, McKinley Co. New Mexico. Rich crust of grey needly micro crystals covering S::mdstone matr ix. 2x3". £3. 77· SIDERITE. Tincroft Mine, Illogan, Corn\~ll. Dark brown modified crystals to 5 mm. in size richly intergrown on Quartz mntrix. 2txlt". £1.25. 78. SIDERITE. Consols Mine, Tywnrdreath, Cornwall. Fine, tan coloured radiated masses of elongated crystals completely covering a matrix of cellular ChloritE> Quartz. 3x4x2". £6. 79. N1.TIVE SILVER. Nipissing Hill, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. i. large bright sheet of Silver vlith minor diabase ttl thick and 3x3:t" in size. £15. 80. N:.TIVE SILVER. Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, U.S.l.. , Bright silvery coiled vlires on nnd in massive grey 1,rgentite. 2txlt". £5. -7- NuTIVE SILVER. Marienberg, saxony, Germany. Silvery masses and \'Iires protruding from n matrix of Sphalerite and minor Hrgentite with a little Quartz. 2xl!". £4. 82. SILVER. un unusual cluster of elongated 'drips', formed by spillage from old native furnaces at Hiendelaencina in Spain. 5" longxl~" ",id.e. £5. SMITHSONITE. Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Lustrous pale ",hite Tice grain habit crystals very richly intergrown and completely covering both sides of a mass pf stalactitic Psilomelane. 2tx2xlt". £5. 84. SMITHSONITE. Sheshodonnel, Nr. Castletown, Co. Clare, Eire. ~ mass of bright yellow botryoidal Smithsonite with minor light purple Fluorite. 3x2i-". £3. 85. SMITHSONITE. Laurium, Kamareza, Greece. Light green lustrous rounded crystals richly encrusting ferruginous gossan ",ith minor Cuprite. 2x2". £2. 86. SPHu.LERITE. Scraithole t1ine, .• b.llendale, Northumberland. Large bright black crystals mostly over 1 cm. in size, thickly inter rOvm with creamy Dolomite crystals on matrix. 5x31". £5.

87. STIBICONITE. Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 1>. 3" single well formed and terminated crystal of Stibnite completely replaced by yellowish brovm Stibiconite. £5. 88. TaVOhITE. Tip Top Mine, Custer Co., S. Dakota, U.S.b.. Pale yellowish green masses associated with pink cleavages of Hureaulite and a little purplish black Leucophosphite in a matrix of deep blackish green radiated Rockbrid,seite. 2tx2xlt". £4. TENNaNTITE. El Cobre, zacatecas, Mexico. Large bri6ht grey sharp crystClls to til in size richly encrusting both sides of a plate of milky Quartz crystals, with minor Chalcopyrite in associQtion. 3x3". £12. 90. THORITE. Kemp Property, Haliburton County, Nr. Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada. Single well formed etched dark reddish bro~~ crystals. £1 each. The crystals are mostly about til in size. 91. TOP",-Z. Jos, Nigeria. Fine, well terminated, clear single crystals of faceting grace. Varying in price from £1 - £3 per crystal depending on size and quality. The largest crystals are over I" in length. METb.-TORBERNITE. Old Gunnislake Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Bright emerald green platy crystals intergrovm on limonitic Quortz on granite matrix. 2xlt". £1.50. 93. TOUR~>Ln~E. Governador Valaderas, Minas Ger,is, Brazil. 1. superb vlell terminated b13;::kish green single crystal, with striated faces 3" long x It" wide. £6. 94. URw~OSPINITE. Basset Mine, Illogan, Corn\~ll. Fine light yellovlish green spiky crystals richly scattered through cavities in cellular Pitchblcnde/Qu3rtz matrix. 3xlt". £6. 95. Vl.ILDINITE. t1ibladen, Nr. Midelt, .-I.tlas Mts., Morocco. Perfect hexaional crystals of J light reddish br0vm c'Jlour to a 4," in size, thickly intergrO\offi ane. covering a matrix of Sandstone. 3x2". £7. -8-

VhNaDINITE. San Carlos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Lustrous, orangey brown skeletal hexagonal crystals intergrown with whitish Calcite covering matrix. 2tx2:}". £4. 97. VaNhDINITE. ~pache Mine, Nr. Globe, Gila Co., ~rizona. U.S.~. Bright red sharp hexagonal crystals to 5 mm. in size, thickly encrusting a brecciated matrix with minor white Calcite in association. Very c~lourful specimen. 5xJ~-". £8. 98. WIIKITE. Lake Ladoga, Impilaks, Finland. Pure resinous clove bro\o/11 mass with minor pink Feldspar. 1txlt". £1.50. 99. WILLEMITE. Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, U.S.h. Solid apple green Qass with minor blackish Franklinite. One side of the specimen has been cut and polished. 2tx2~". £3. 100. WO~~ITE. East Po~l Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Extremely rich specimens consisting of thick bright black blades of Wolframite associated with minor Fluorite and a little golden Chalcopyrite. Specimen ... - 3x3x2". £3; Specimen B- 3x2txlt". £2.50; Specimen C- 3ix2x2". £2.